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species Mutela dubia (Gmelin, 1791): specimens
26 available nominal species synonyms (36 total synonyms)

Recent Taxonomic Opinions

Mutela dubia — Graf & Cummings (2007), Hoeh et al. (2009), Van Damme & Van Bocxlaer (2009), IUCN (2010), Bogan (2010), ... Wu et al. (2021), Wu et al. (2022), Wu et al. (2023), Wu et al. (2024), Dai et al. (2025)
Mutela dubia dubia — Graf & Cummings (2007)
Mutela dubia nilotica — Graf & Cummings (2007), IUCN (2010)
Mutela dubia emini — Graf & Cummings (2007), IUCN (2010)
Mutela dubia garambae — Graf & Cummings (2007), IUCN (2010)

Range

Widespread in western Africa, the Congo and Nile.

Map of Georeferenced Specimens

species map

Benin

MNHN_MP_0607 Dahomey, cercle de Zagnanado, sur les rivieres du Bas Oueme a Dogba	MNHN_MP_0606 Dahomey: Cercle de Zagnanado sur les rives du bas Ouémé à [Asuandjitomé]	MNHN_MP_0583 Kotonou
MNHN_MP_0585 Kotonou	IRSNB_MP_0423 Lagune de Kotomou	IRSNB_MP_0425 Lagune de Kotomou
IRSNB_MP_0425 Lagune de Kotomou	MNHN_MP_0592 pres Zagnanado, Dahomey	MNHN_MP_0602 Zananado, bords de l’Oueme, Dahomey

Cameroon

MNHN_MP_0601 Lac Ossa	MNHN_MP_0587 Nono, riv. Wuri	MNHN_MP_0587 Nono, riv. Wuri
BMNH_1911-10-27-3 River Logone, South of Lake Chad

Central African Republic

MNHN_MP_0542 affluent de la Kémo at de la Comi (trib Oubangi - Congo)	MNHN_MP_0203 Haut Oubangui	MNHN_MP_0203 Haut Oubangui
MNHN_MP_0589 Mamoun (Chari)

Chad

MNHN_MP_0624 Baga Sola, Lac Tchad	UMMZ_248788 Chari River, sand bar in river, at J’D’jamena, Republic of Chad	MNHN_MP_0593 Fort Lamy, Chari
MNHN_MP_0632 Fort Lamy, lac Tchad, dans le Chari	MNHN_MP_0292 Lac Chad	MNHN_MP_0197 Lac Tchad
MNHN_MP_0197 Lac Tchad	MNHN_MP_0197 Lac Tchad	MNHN_MP_0225 Lac Tchad
MNHN_MP_0225 Lac Tchad	MNHN_MP_0238 Lac Tchad	MNHN_MP_0238 Lac Tchad
MNHN_MP_0301 Lac Tchad	MNHN_MP_0301 Lac Tchad	MNHN_MP_0301 Lac Tchad
MNHN_MP_0613 Lac Tchad	MNHN_MP_0614 Lac Tchad	MNHN_MP_0614 Lac Tchad
MNHN_MP_0615 Lac Tchad	MNHN_MP_0617 Lac Tchad	MNHN_MP_0618 Lac Tchad
MNHN_MP_0619 Lac Tchad	MNHN_MP_0620 Lac Tchad	MNHN_MP_0622 Lac Tchad
MNHN_MP_0622 Lac Tchad	MNHN_MP_0612_01 Lac Tchad (Bol)	MNHN_MP_0616 Lac Tchad (nord)
MNHN_MP_0611 Lac Tchad, Baga Sola	MNHN_MP_0628 Lac Tchad, Baga Sola	MRAC_798073 Lac Tchad: Fort Lamy
IRSNB_MP_0529 Lac Tchad...	BMNH_1932-2-8-64-67 Lake Chad	BMNH_1932-2-8-64-67 Lake Chad
BMNH_1923-3-6-15 Lake Chad, Sudan	MNHN_MP_0626 Le Bas Chari	MNHN_MP_0625 Mayo Kebi près e Lére (Tchad)
SMF_12248_01 Muse Elu (Lere See), Benue Gebiet	MNHN_MP_0608 Parc National de Zakouma, Tchad	MNHN_MP_0631 Samia (lac Tchad)

Congo (Brazzaville)

MNHN_MP_0579
L’Oubangui

MNHN_MP_0749
Oubanghi (bas)

Congo (DRC)

AMNH_72066 Aba River, Africa	AMNH_72066 Aba River, Africa	ZMB_112993 Albert See, Kassenji
MRAC_58443 Garamba	ANSP_134051 Garamba River, Belgian Congo	IRSNB_MP_0696 Kasenga Luapula, Congo Belge
ZMB_MP_0392 Kassenge, SW Albert Nyansa	ZMB_MP_0392 Kassenge, SW Albert Nyansa	ZMB_108807 Kassenye, Albert Nyanza
ZMB_108807 Kassenye, Albert Nyanza	MRAC_483032 Lac Albert Kasenyi	MRAC_58440 Lac Albert Kasenyi
MRAC_59259 Lac Albert Mahagi	MRAC_58433 Lac Albert Mahagi Port	MRAC_58436 Lac Albert Mahagi Port
MRAC_58931 Lac Albert Mahagi Port	IRSNB_MP_0706 Lac Edouard Isango, Congo Belge	MCZ_41064 Lake Albert, Mahagi, Belgian Congo
MCZ_172816 Lake Edward, Ishango, Belgian Congo	MCZ_171875 Lake Edward, N shore, Kasindi, Belgian Congo	AMNH_72067 Middle Garambe River, Belgian Congo (Zaire), Africa
AMNH_72067 Middle Garambe River, Belgian Congo (Zaire), Africa	IRSNB_MP_0679 Nsendwe, Congo Belge	IRSNB_MP_0726 Nsendwe, Congo Belge [This doesn’t look like anything from the Congo]
IRSNB_MP_0680 Nsendwe, Haut-Lualaba, Congo Belge	ZMB_108808 Undussuma, ... Albert Nyansa	ZMB_108808 Undussuma, ... Albert Nyansa
ANSP_133858 W shore of L. Albert	ANSP_133858 W shore of L. Albert

Côte d'Ivoire

MNHN_MP_0597
Côte d’Ivoire, river Bagoe pres de Kouto, (bassin de Niger)

Egypt

USNM_126439 [Nile R.], Nubia, Africa	USNM_126439 [Nile R.], Nubia, Africa	USNM_126439 [Nile R.], Nubia, Africa
USNM_126439 [Nile R.], Nubia, Africa	SMF_319215 Abu Simbel, shore of Lake Nassar, Aegypten	SMF_319215 Abu Simbel, shore of Lake Nassar, Aegypten
SMF_319215 Abu Simbel, shore of Lake Nassar, Aegypten	IRSNB_MP_0389 Alexandrie	BMNH_MP_211 Bahr el Faraomijeh
ZMB_35201 Bahr el Jussuf	SMF_12256 Bahr el Karum, bei El Fayum, U. Eg.	MNHN_MP_0280 Bahr Yousef, Egypte
MNHN_MP_0280 Bahr Yousef, Egypte	IRSNB_MP_0375 Canal Ismaileh (eau douce) a Ismailia	UMMZ_111984 Canal Mahmoudich, Egypt
UMMZ_111999 Canal Mahmoudich, Egypt	IRSNB_MP_0642 Canal Mahmoudieh, Egypte	MNHN_MP_0595 canal, d’Ismallia (Egypte)
MNHN_MP_0598 canal, Ismalia	MNHN_MP_0594 canal, Ismallia	UMMZ_111998 Darde, nr Asswan, Egypt
SMF_83007 Debod, Egypten	SMF_83009 Debod, Egypten	MNHN_MP_0636 du canal St. Joseph, Egypte, Nil
UF_93228 Egypt	MNHN_MP_0612_02 Egypte	MNHN_MP_0630 Egypte
MRAC_59008 Egypte: Canal Mahmoudieh	MRAC_58572 Egypte: le Nil	SMF_12257 Egypten, Africa
IRSNB_MP_0694 Ismaila	IRSNB_MP_0391 Ismaila dans le canal d’eau douce Ismailia	MNHN_MP_0635 Ismailia canal
IRSNB_MP_0392 Ismailia dans le canal d’eau douce Ismailieh	MNHN_MP_0634 Ismalia	UMMZ_57494 Lake Karum, Karanis, Fayum District, Egypt
UMMZ_57494 Lake Karum, Karanis, Fayum District, Egypt	MNHN_MP_0629 Le Nil, Egypte	ANSP_146183 Mahmoudich Canal, Africa
SMF_12250_02 Mahmudie-Kanal, bei Alexandrien	SMF_319638 Nil bei Luxor, Egypten	MNHN_MP_0633 Nil, Egypt
USNM_86783 Nile R., Egypt	USNM_86783 Nile R., Egypt	USNM_86783 Nile R., Egypt
USNM_86783 Nile R., Egypt	AMNH_30889 Nile River, Egypt	ANSP_149616 Nile River, Egypt
DMNH_120068 Nile River, Egypt	MCZ_156706 Nile River, Egypt	MCZ_60131 Nile River, Egypt
MCZ_60131 Nile River, Egypt	UMMZ_46010 Nile River, Egypt	ANSP_403518 Nile River, Maadi, about 10 km south of Cairo, Egypt; 29 58- -N, 031 15 --E
UF_270738 Nile River, North of Alexandria, Egypt	SMF_83008 Nilufer Insel, Elephantine yegenub. Assuan	SMF_12253 Ob. Egypten [Upper Egypt]
UMMZ_111982 Port Said	USNM_126956B R. Nile, Egypt	USNM_126956B R. Nile, Egypt
USNM_126956B R. Nile, Egypt	USNM_126956B R. Nile, Egypt	AMNH_292216 River Nile, Egypt
AMNH_31288 River Nile, Egypt	MCZ_134061 Suez at Port Said, Egypt	BMNH_46-7-24-18 Syene, Egypt
BMNH_46-7-24-18 Syene, Egypt	USNM_160045 Syene, Upper Egypt	MNHN_MP_0623 The Nile, Egypt
UMMZ_111981 The Nile, Egypt

BMNH_46-7-24-19. Syene, Egypt

Gambia

MNHN_MP_0534
Gambie

Ghana

MRAC_799166 Ghana: lac Volta, Agogovi Kope	MRAC_799165 Ghana: lac Volta, Kabutey	MRAC_799163 Ghana: lac Volta, Zikpo
MRAC_799164 Ghana: lac Volta, Zikpo	MRAC_799164 Ghana: lac Volta, Zikpo

Kenya

BMNH_1904-7-17-5
Lake Rudolf

Mali

MNHN_MP_0586 Bamako (canal)	MNHN_MP_0588 Bamakou, Niger	MNHN_MP_0512 Haut Senegal, Niger
IRSNB_MP_0395 Koulikoro Niger	MNHN_MP_0605 Niger, pres d’ Mopti	MNHN_MP_0591 Yiri Madio (Niger)
MNHN_MP_0591 Yiri Madio (Niger)

Morocco

MNHN_MP_0582
Maroc

Niger

MNHN_MP_0580 Gourao	MNHN_MP_0584 Gourao	MNHN_MP_0609 Gourao (Niger)
MNHN_MP_0610 Gourao (Niger)	MNHN_MP_0610 Gourao (Niger)	MNHN_MP_0627 Ténéré

Nigeria

BMNH_1905-1-30-9-12 N. Nigeria	ZMB_17668 Niger Maschel bei Rabba	BMNH_1949-12-7-2 Niger River, Lokoja, Nigeria
BMNH_904-5-19-1-5 The Dago at Zungeru, Northern Nigeria	MCZ_40868 Wudil, Kano, Northern Nigeria

Senegal

MNHN_MP_0543 de al Faleme.... confluent dans le Sénégal	MNHN_MP_0599 Faleme, Senegal	MNHN_MP_0245 Fleuve Faleme, Senegal
MNHN_MP_0245 Fleuve Faleme, Senegal	MNHN_MP_0531 Pambélé sur de Sénégal (Afrique occidentale)	AMNH_30887 Senegal
AMNH_31290 Senegal	AMNH_31291 Senegal	AMNH_61950 Senegal
BMNH_40-2-22-21 Senegal	BMNH_MP_188 Senegal	BMNH_MP_258 Senegal
CM_61.1541 Senegal	DMNH_172993 Senegal	DMNH_173146 Senegal
IRSNB_MP_0377 Senegal	IRSNB_MP_0634 Senegal	IRSNB_MP_0677 Senegal
IRSNB_MP_0688 Senegal	MNHN_MP_0523 Senegal	MNHN_MP_0525 Senegal
MNHN_MP_0533 Senegal	MNHN_MP_0535 Senegal	MNHN_MP_0537 Senegal
MNHN_MP_0537 Senegal	MNHN_MP_0539 Senegal	MNHN_MP_0544 Senegal
MRAC_57575 Senegal	MRAC_57576 Senegal	MRAC_58424 Senegal
ZMB_112989 Senegal	ZMB_112998 Senegal	MCZ_171542 Senegal, French West Africa
UMMZ_111977 Senegambia, West Africa	UMMZ_111977 Senegambia, West Africa

Sudan

MRAC_58425 Embouchure du Nil Blanc	IRSNB_MP_0371 Fachoda	SMF_12254 Fachoda
ZMB_53587 Fachoda	UMMZ_111993 Fachoda, Anglo Egyptian Sudan	MNHN_MP_0689 Fleuve Blanc
BMNH_1923-6-8-1142 Gebel Ahmed Agha	BMNH_MP_190 Gebel Ahmed Agha	BMNH_MP_198 Gebel En
MCZ_75736 Gel River, between Rumbek and Tonj, Equitoria, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan	SMF_993 Lakadivia-Insel, Bahr-el-Abiad [Bahr al Abyad = White Nile] [Sudan]	MCZ_88900 Lol River, Nyanlel, Equitoria, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
BMNH_MP_179 Masran Is.	BMNH_MP_186 Masran Island	BMNH_MP_380 mouth of the White Nile
BMNH_MP_385 mouth of the White Nile	SMF_319214 N Sudan	SMF_319214 N Sudan
BMNH_1923-6-8-1157-1160 near Mogran, S. Sudan	MNHN_MP_0673 Nil Blanc	MNHN_MP_0675 Nil Blanc
MNHN_MP_0676 Nil Blanc	MNHN_MP_0677 Nil Blanc	MNHN_MP_0678 Nil Blanc
MNHN_MP_0685 Nil Blanc	IRSNB_MP_0390 riv. SE du lac Tchad entre Bol et le confluent du Bahr el Gazal	UMMZ_108020 River Nile, between Rejat and Nimula, Sudan, East Africa
ZMB_37440 Sennaar	MNHN_MP_0679 Sennar	MNHN_MP_0684 Sennar
MNHN_MP_0682 Soudan Anglo Egyptien	MNHN_MP_0683 Soudan Anglo Egyptien	MRAC_97746 Soudan: Bahr el Abiad, Aradiba
MRAC_97730 Soudan: Bahr el Abiad, Khor Adar	MRAC_799133 Soudan: rive gauche du Nil a Eyzumar pres du Village de Tabo Northern Prov.	BMNH_MP_196 south of Melut
SMF_12251 Sudan	UMMZ_248936 Swampy area North of Kosti bridge, White Nile River, Sudan	UMMZ_248935 Swampy bank of White Nile of Kosti, Sudan & across from Aba Is.
UMMZ_111988 Upper Nile, Africa	USNM_215180 White Nile, Gordon Tree, above Khartoum	USNM_215180 White Nile, Gordon Tree, above Khartoum
USNM_215180 White Nile, Gordon Tree, above Khartoum	USNM_215180 White Nile, Gordon Tree, above Khartoum	BMNH_1923-6-8-1161 White Nile, Khartum, S. Sudan

Uganda

USNM_215182 Albert Nyanza, Butiaba	USNM_215182 Albert Nyanza, Butiaba	USNM_215182 Albert Nyanza, Butiaba
SMF_12249 Kioga See, zw Victoria und Albert See, O. Afrika	MCZ_53506 Kioga, lake between Lake Albert and Lake Victoria, Uganda	MNHN_MP_0687 lac albert, Kaiso (Afrique Orientale)
UMMZ_111985 Lake Albert, British Uganda, Africa	UMMZ_111985 Lake Albert, British Uganda, Africa	MCZ_139758 Lake Albert, Bugungu, near Butiaba, Uganda
BMNH_1940-7-31-1-3 Lake Albert, Butiaba	MCZ_175081 Lake Albert, Butiaba, Uganda	USNM_606826 Lake Albert, Butiaba, Uganda
USNM_606826 Lake Albert, Butiaba, Uganda	USNM_606826 Lake Albert, Butiaba, Uganda	UMMZ_67728 Lake Albert, Butiaba, Uganda, East Africa
UMMZ_67728 Lake Albert, Butiaba, Uganda, East Africa	BMNH_MP_191 Lake Albert, Ugandan shore, between Kibro and Tonya	ANSP_164951 Lake Edward, Butiaba, Africa
MCZ_260519 Lake Victoria, Queen Elizabeth Park, Uganda	UMMZ_108021 Masindi, between L. Albert and Victoria, Africa	USNM_215183 Rhino Camp, L. Enclave
USNM_215183 Rhino Camp, L. Enclave	USNM_215183 Rhino Camp, L. Enclave	ANSP_348827 Stand of Lake Albert, Butiaba, Uganda; 1.48 N; 31.21 E
BMNH_MP_174 Tonia, Albert Nyanza	BMNH_1930-12-3-365-367 Uganda	MNHN_MP_0688 Uganda

unknown

IRSNB_MP_0372 [locality illegible]	AMNH_30888 [no locality available - Africa]	AMNH_30890 [no locality available - Africa]
AMNH_61953 [no locality available - Africa]	IRSNB_MP_0366 [no locality available - Africa]	IRSNB_MP_0369 [no locality available - Africa]
IRSNB_MP_0370 [no locality available - Africa]	IRSNB_MP_0398 [no locality available - Africa]	IRSNB_MP_0398 [no locality available - Africa]
IRSNB_MP_0418 [no locality available - Africa]	IRSNB_MP_0693 [no locality available - Africa]	MNHN_MP_0577 [no locality available - Africa]
MNHN_MP_0686 [no locality available - Africa]	SMF_12252 [no locality available - Africa]	SMF_12255 [no locality available - Africa]
USNM_86775 [no locality available - Africa]	USNM_86775 [no locality available - Africa]	ZMB_9617 [no locality available - Africa]
ANSP_41818 Africa	BMNH_MP_201 Africa	BMNH_MP_202 Africa
BMNH_MP_217 Africa	BMNH_MP_219 Africa	FMNH_3259 Africa
IRSNB_MP_0386 Africa	MRAC_58428 Africa	UMMZ_111973 Africa
UMMZ_111973 Africa	UMMZ_22892 Africa	UMMZ_22892 Africa
UMMZ_23171 Africa	MRAC_58423 Africale	ZMB_111982 Afrika
ZMB_112992 Afrika	ZMB_112997 Afrika	IRSNB_MP_0459_02 Afrique Tropicale
IRSNB_MP_0678 Afrique Tropicale	IRSNB_MP_0757 Afrique Tropicale	ZMB_112994 Albert Eduard See
ZMB_112995 Albert Eduard See	BMNH_1901-8-16-13 Albert Nyanza	BMNH_1901-8-16-24 Albert Nyanza, British Central Africa
BMNH_46-4-24-17 Egypt & Senegal	BMNH_MP_199 Egypt & Senegal	ZMB_109093 Ituri [this is presumably from Lake Albert]
IRSNB_MP_0340 Lac Albert	MRAC_614283 Lac Edouard, plage de Berra	MRAC_406727 Lac Edward
MRAC_783612 Lac Edward	BMNH_MP_165 Lake Albert	MCZ_72825 Lake Edward, Uganda
ZMB_112987 Land	IRSNB_MP_0630 Le Nil	MNHN_MP_0578 Le Nil
MNHN_MP_0637 Le Nil	MNHN_MP_0674 Le Nil	MNHN_MP_0722 Le Nil
MRAC_58557 Le Nil	MRAC_58571 Le Nil	DMNH_56407 Le Nil (Nile River)
MRAC_275691 Mabaqi, presque’ile Tunduru	ZMB_111981 Mbugu, Victoria Nyansa	ZMB_112974 Mion
MNHN_MP_0590 Niger	MNHN_MP_0603 Niger	MNHN_MP_0604 Niger
MNHN_MP_0715 Niger	IRSNB_MP_0400 Nil	IRSNB_MP_0631 Nil
IRSNB_MP_0636 Nil	IRSNB_MP_0682 Nil	IRSNB_MP_0690 Nil
MNHN_MP_0596 Nil	MNHN_MP_0600 Nil	MNHN_MP_0638 Nil
MNHN_MP_0639 Nil	MNHN_MP_0640 Nil	SMF_12247 Nil in Nubien
BMNH_1900-7-17-304 Nile River	BMNH_46-7-24-15-16 Nile River	BMNH_MP_173 Nile River
BMNH_MP_177 Nile River	BMNH_MP_205 Nile River	UF_93193 Nile River
ANSP_129951 River Nile	ANSP_9059 River Nile	USNM_25683 River Nile
USNM_25683 River Nile	UMMZ_111976 The Nile	UMMZ_111979 The Nile, Africa
UMMZ_111986_02 Tropical Africa	IRSNB_MP_0385 Victoria See Uganda	SMF_319216 Viktoria-See, Tansania [Lake Victoria, Tanzania]
SMF_319216 Viktoria-See, Tansania [Lake Victoria, Tanzania]	ANSP_125479 W. Africa	MRAC_58427 West Africa
UMMZ_111975 West Africa

UMMZ_195669.

UMMZ_84195.